More than two days after the devastating and deadly passage of Cyclone Chido, emergency services are organizing to find survivors.
A curfew will be introduced this evening, from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.
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CURFEW TONIGHT
A curfew will be introduced this evening in Mayotte, from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m., according to the Ministry of the Interior to LCI.
This curfew is put in place for security reasons, in order to avoid looting, at a time when Mayotte, the poorest department in France, must face shortages of water and food after the passage of the cyclone.
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“WE ALREADY HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE DAY AFTER”
The resigning Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau spoke on his X account about the situation in Mayotte and mentioned the migratory aspect of the island.
CURFEW TONIGHT
A curfew will be introduced this evening in Mayotte, from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m., according to the Ministry of the Interior to LCI.
This curfew is put in place for security reasons, in order to avoid looting, at a time when Mayotte, the poorest department in France, must face shortages of water and food after the passage of the cyclone.
“WE ARE NOT GOING TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM SHELTERING”
In Hello! On the TF1 morning show, the resigning Minister Delegate in charge of Security of the daily Nicolas Daragon raised the case of illegal foreign nationals from Mayotte, whose precarious habitats were blown up by Chido.
“Local elected officials have repeatedly told the Minister of the Interior how much he does not want the bangas to re-establish themselves. Except that we are facing an emergency. People have started to return to these slums to try to fix what they could fix and get back to safety, and we’re not going to stop them from getting back to safety.”
MAYOTTE ABANDONED BY THE STATE? “AN UNFAIR SPEECH” FOR DARAGON
The resigning Minister Delegate in charge of Daily Security Nicolas Daragon commented on Bonjour! The TF1 morning show “unfair” the speeches which denounce the abandonment of Mayotte by the State for several years.
“This seems unfair to me since 80% of the GDP of the island of Mayotte comes from public aid. It is almost 2 billion in grants that the State pays to Mayotte because it does not have its own resources and this is logical because it is national solidarity. Consequently, we cannot hold this kind of speech” affirmed Nicolas Daragon.
FRANCIS BAYROU
The Prime Minister has been the subject of criticism since Monday, after going to the municipal council of Pau, a city of which he has been mayor for ten years. This morning, Yaël Braun-Pivet declared to our colleagues at franceinfo that she “would have preferred that the Prime Minister took the plane to Mayotte”.
A FIRST HUMAN ASSESSMENT IN “A TEN DAYS”
Guest of “Bonjour! La matinale TF1”, the resigning Minister Delegate in charge of Security of the daily Nicolas Daragon spoke about the situation in Mayotte. “We must respond to the emergency which is to provide relief and assistance to all these victims whose number we are not currently fully capable of assessing” he declared, evoking the possibility of establishing a first human toll from the disaster “within ten days”.
BEFORE/AFTER IN MAMOUDZOU
Satellite photos above the archipelago capital, Mamoudzou, show the extent of the gigantic damage after the passage of Cyclone Chido.
EMERGENCY WORKERS ON THE WORK
Airlift, clearing obstacles on the road, transporting food to the most remote areas: the rescuers and police on site are working tirelessly to help the victims.
Mayotte: the rescue race against timeSource : TF1 Info
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE?”
François Bayrou was arrested this Monday evening while attending the municipal council of Pau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. “What are you doing here? You are out of place, Mr. Bayrou,” declared a member of the opposition in the context of the crisis affecting the Mayotte archipelago.
Mayotte: François Bayrou arrested in PauSource : TF1 Info
NATIONAL MOURNING
The President of the Republic announces that he will visit the Mayotte archipelago, devastated by Cyclone Chido. He also plans to declare national mourning, a first since 2020 and the death of former president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
BONJOUR
Welcome to this live broadcast devoted to the consequences of the passage of Cyclone Chido over the Mayotte archipelago during the night from Friday to Saturday. The material damage is immense and the authorities fear a very heavy human toll. Follow here, throughout the day, the latest news.
The race against time continues. More than two days after the devastating and deadly passage of Cyclone Chido, emergency services are organizing to find survivors in the rubble in Mayotte, a battered archipelago where the first evacuations took place on Monday and where Emmanuel Macron, who will decree “a national mourning” , will surrender “in the coming days”. Authorities carried out Monday evening “First 25 evacuations” of patients to Reunion, the resigning Minister of Health Geneviève Darrieussecq also announced to AFP.
“The island is completely devastated. The precarious housing, the shanty towns, nothing remains,” declared Monday evening the resigning Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, returning to Reunion after a visit “at the heart of the disaster” in Mayotte, alongside his Overseas colleague François-Noël Buffet. The authorities fear “several hundred” dead, maybe “a few thousand”, but Bruno Retailleau refused to do anything “prognosis”, emphasizing that he “will take days and days” before having a real assessment.
The count is complicated by the fact that Mayotte is a land with a strong Muslim tradition and that, according to Islamic rites, many of the deceased were probably buried within 24 hours of their death. For now, the authorities officially count 21 deaths in hospital and the local prefect has set up a “dead search mission”.
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